Really Microsoft?
I didn’t get asked this yesterday.
One of the methods I can use is a credit card check. Presumably the same credit card I use to make Marketplace purchases already. Unbelievable!
I’ll skip, and see how limited my social features are. I don’t give two hoots about stuff external to MSFS. As long as I can see other players planes, join groups etc. then I’m good, and I’ll leave that on the permanently ignore list.
A pilot is a pilot, unless you live in the UK it seems. 
I had the age verification message pop up when I ran FS2024 this morning. I refused of course, and was able to continue to the sim but without some social interactions. I am in the UK, so this is obviously part of the Government’s anti-privacy crusade.
Like many others if at all possible I refuse to pass my personal details on to a hackable third party. I have already suffered from such hacking at various “secure” banks etc I am involved with, and do not want my privacy/security further endangered. If it gets to the stage where I can’t run FS2024 at all without falling into line, so be it. I will go elsewhere.
And as others have pointed out, the whole exercise is futile, with various ways of getting around it. It is meant to protect children, but I’m sure many (if not most) children use their parent’s account anyway, so it will be down to the parents themselves to police their children’s behaviour - as it should be and always has been.
So I would urge Microsoft/XBox to follow the example of other American firms and resist this imposition of such useless but dangerous and intrusive rules.
Same here. I wonder what social interactions I will miss. I don’t care about MP or online chats. I hope live weather and AI traffic are not part of the same service.
I can only presume it’s direct communication they are worried about. I can’t imagine it will affect normal sim operation such as weather etc.
I too am currently ignoring this. I don’t do multiplayer or socal media interations in the sim. However on one social media platform I use they are allowing users to post as usual, but they can’t create or receive DM’s without age verification. So you may find DM’s will suddenly not be possible on say this forum at some point. They haven’t explicitly stated this though from what I’ve seen in these notices, which just refer to social features.
Asked also for me ID. Im not even in UK. Im not going to provide photos or anything. This surveillance dystopian can go somewhere where sun wont shine.
My Microsoft account is older than some coders at microsoft right now, so they can use that to decide if Im old enough to fly virtual airplanes
This gonna stop people from flying and using msfs. And other games. I’m in my 30s, and the system isn’t even working to let me open and fly. It’s not Microsoft to blame.
How many numbers will drop I wonder
Because I’m not from UK and it still asked me this government surveillance “protect the children“ nonsense. I got curious. Why me Finnish citizen have to prove age to MS.
I go to my ms account page account.microsoft.com and check my account there
Well it was set UK, so thats why it was asking verification. I changed to my home country Finland. After this I check verification page
So maybe everyone should check they have correct country selected.
So perhaps I should move to Finland (or at least lie to MS where I am located while I’m in the sim).
The whole idea of age verification is so stupid, it’s so easy to get around and will not stop children doing what they want (and in fact in a way encouraging them to do so). Hopefully it will be shown to fail, and will die a natural death.
